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26 June 2016
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Starting Price: 150 CHF
Hammer Price:  303 CHF
Lot 1010

Andronicus I Gidon, Emperor of Trebizond, 1222-1235. Aspron Trachy (Electrum, 25mm, 1.97 g 6), Nicaea (?). The Theotokos Sorotissa standing facing, nimbate, hands extended to right and wearing a maphorion; on shoulders and forehead, cruciform pellets; MP-ΘV across upper fields; in lower field to left and right, C and A. Rev. IC-XC // O/X/A/Λ - K/H/Th/S Christ Chalkites standing facing, wearing a himation over a divitision and a cross nimbus, raising his right hand in benediction and holding book of Gospels in his left. S. Bendall, “An Early Coinage of the ‘Empire’ of Trebizond?”, NCirc, June 2002, 1 and, idem, “A Further Note on a Possible Early Coinage of the Empire of Trebizond”, NCirc, August 2006, fig. 1. DOC IV pl. 37 (Uncertain of Nicaea) 1. SB 2148 (same). Good very fine.

Online bidding closes: 26 Jun 2016, 23:25:00 CEST Current Date & Time: 20 Apr 2024, 15:26:39 CEST Remaining Time: Closed Hammer Price:303 CHF by orfeleeda (8 bids)
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